1 DR. AYERS: The only place I've known where people had any trouble 



2 with it and had to do something like pull up or something was in Brazil, 



3 off-shore Brazil, and I think in the South Atlantic. 



4 DR. BUTMAN: They also had some trouble in the Andaman Sea with 



5 those big internal waves there. I remember reading something about that 



6 a long time ago. 



7 DR. AYERS: Where? 



8 DR. BUTMAN: In the Andaman Sea in the Pacific. 



9 MR. LANE: Would Gulf Stream type velocities or warm core ring 



10 type peripheral velocities cause you to disconnect? 



11 DR. AYERS: It didn't. We were exposed to those things. 



12 DR. NEFF: There were some major winter storms in '81 and '82 that 



13 caused some problems. 



14 DR. AYERS: They had to stop drilling or something. It would keep 



15 us from using drill ships. 



16 MR. LANE: On the anchoring pattern, does it have to be radial? 



17 DR. RAY: I'm sure they've got some on, you know-- 



18 MR. LANE: Trying to get 2 to 5 hundred feet from the rim of a 



19 canyon, how one would anchor an exploration platform or drill ship or 



20 semisubmersible without extending your anchor chain over a 2-mile swath 



21 or a 1-mile swath. 



22 DR. RAY: I'm sure there is some flexibility, but I don't know 



23 that much about it. 



24 DR. AURAND: Oil in the water column. Blow-outs are rare, but 



25 would you want to run through very quickly what you think the situation 



26 would be for contamination? 



27 DR. NEFF: The general feeling is the major impact would be to 



28 surface waters, possibly eggs and larvae of fish, and that can include 



29 cod and haddock and so forth. As I say, I don't know of a mechanism to 



30 get enough oil down on the bottom to cause any serious long-term 



31 impacts. 



32 MR. LANE: Larval stages of the species at the surface? 



33 DR. NEFF: Yes. With cod fish, for instance, the eggs are on the 



34 bottom, they rise to the surface and then gradually sink back down 



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